Seated Female Storyteller with 8 Children [SOLD]

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Dorothy Herrera (b.1970 - )
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 5-7/8” height x 6-1/8” depth x 4” width
  • Item # C3688.56
  • SOLD

Cochiti Pueblo potter Dorothy Herrera is the granddaughter of Laurencita Herrera and daughter of Mary Frances Herrera.  She has been making pottery, mostly storytellers, since the 1980s.

 

Dorothy Herrera (b.1970 - ) signatureThis seated female storyteller figurine is dressed in the traditional pueblo dress that is over one shoulder and under the other one.  She has a squash blossom necklace and traditional moccasins.  Her hair is tied in a chonga in the back.  There are eight childrensix boys and two girls.  One of the girls is holding a doll and the other one a slice of watermelon.

 

Condition: original condition

Recommended ReadingThe Pueblo Storyteller by Barbara Babcock

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Corrales, New Mexico

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Dorothy Herrera (b.1970 - )
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 5-7/8” height x 6-1/8” depth x 4” width
  • Item # C3688.56
  • SOLD

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